The image of the elderly nun having on the shoulders her backpack stood next to his coffin Pope Francis In the Basilica of St. Peter, “breaking” the Vatican protocol made his way around the internet.
Before the crowd is even allowed to pass in front of Pope Franciskuja’s coffin to say goodbye to him, the petty nuns Zeneviev Zaningros, Member of Jesus’ Little Brothers Community, stood and bid farewell to the man who had stood by her In the darkest years of her life.
Zeneviev Zaningros, originally from France and Argentina, who was found in the first day at the Basilica of St. Peter where Pope Francis’ corpse was put into a banned area to pray in front of the casket.
Although the protocol predicted that only cardinals or priests could approach the coffin, nobody from Swiss guard She did not dare to remove her.
Kalogria and Pope Francis met in 2005 when she traveled from Rome to Buenos Aires for her aunt’s funeral Leonie DuquetAlso, nuns according to the relevant AFP report.
In the mid -1970s, her aunt, also a nun, was among the victims of the bloody dictatorship of Argentina. Duquet and other activists were thrown alive at sea during the infamous “death flights”.
Her body was identified years later and identified, leading to a painful but necessary re -election.
In a video published by her battalion, sister Zeneviev said she had reprimanded the church in a letter about the fact that they did not send senior clergy to her aunt’s funeral.
Specifically, he sent letter protestto which the then Cardinal Jorge Bergolio responded immediately, later Pope Francis. She personally called her the same night, explaining to her that she had approved the burial of her aunt in the courtyard of the Santa Cris Church.
Francis himself was tenderly called Zeneviev “L’Enfant Terrible” ie “Terrible Child” For its disobedient spirit and its tireless courage. She, reciprocating her confidence, brought every Wednesday to the Vatican employees of amusement park, homeless, trans women and other marginalized, to meet the Pope in public hearing.
During the pandemic, Zeneviev mediated that Franciscus could financially support Ostia’s amusement park workers, but also to help a group of Latin American trans. The Pope himself visited the amusement park to bless them and show his solidarity.
Until last year, sister Zeneviev lived in this amusement park outside Rome in a caravan, offering services to the weak, the New York Times.